Dialect/slang

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 4:52 pm

arry awk wrote: Hev yew gotta loight bor? am nuwgownome

Hats Off · Post by **Hats Off** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 5:17 pm

Did anyone else get sent up the "Dancers" at bedtime ?

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 6:10 pm

Hats Off wrote: Did anyone else get sent up the "Dancers" at bedtime ? Yes me. But I understand it's cockernee rhyming slang - dancing bears.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 7:46 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: Hats Off wrote: Did anyone else get sent up the "Dancers" at bedtime ? Yes me. But I understand it's cockernee rhyming slang - dancing bears. As kids we were told to "ger up them dancers" and didn't know until now where it came from.Another of life's mysteries solved!!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 10:30 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: Hats Off wrote: Did anyone else get sent up the "Dancers" at bedtime ? Yes me. But I understand it's cockernee rhyming slang - dancing bears. I thought the cockney slang for stairs was "apples and pears?"

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Thu 10 Apr, 2008 10:54 pm

Trojan wrote: Geordie-exile wrote: Hats Off wrote: Did anyone else get sent up the "Dancers" at bedtime ? Yes me. But I understand it's cockernee rhyming slang - dancing bears. I thought the cockney slang for stairs was "apples and pears?" It is Trojan, but there are several alternatives for a lot of words: http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/en ... tives/8272

Tel. 0532 · Post by **Tel. 0532** » Mon 28 Apr, 2008 1:56 pm

chameleon wrote: chameleon wrote: cnosni wrote: MsJ2uk wrote: , Funny how we seem to be quoting our Grandparents + parents. When we're just as bad. . . We had friends over from Ireland, they'd never heard of 'goin t'chippy for twice wi scraps, + a cake, wrapped'. . . My Grandad used to say 'pt wood int ole am frozzen' meaning 'close the door i am cold'., Post Yeah you try going any chippy outside of leeds and ask for once or twice and they say "once of what?"As for scraps well at least that term seems to extend to the east coast,so does breadcakes.( None of this Barm cake or bap bollox).Say breadcakes to someone even in Cas and they will look at you daft,but in Scarborough and Whitby they know their breadcakes and their scraps (not bits).Conscidering the distance between the east coast and Leeds,and Leeds and Cas then dont you think that this is most unusual.i love this thread!! Work this one out - some years ago working in Glassgow and after a late night I found a chippie and asked cheerfully asked for 'Once to eat now please'. A very bemused staff mumbled to each other and turned to me saying 'sorry, we dont sell larger'. Beats me! This thread is fabulous - I really need to get some work done instead of reading it!!On the subject of chips shops my dad used to get me to"get thissen down t'fish'oil & get me some fish n' nerks once wi' scraps wrapped up'I thought that nerks was just something he had made up but I was chatting to someone the other week who came out with the same word for chips - my dad died 2 years ago but hearing this again made the hairs go up on the back of my neck.The diversity of dialect changes over realtively short distance, especially when ordering fish and chips, is fantastic.Also, a word my mum still uses is 'middin' as in "this house looks like a middin!' (untidy)Middin, I believe, is the bin area on a street of back to back houses.'Put wood in't oil (shut the door) was another classic that keeps coming up in the thread.Classics - keep 'em coming and keep the dialect alive0532

Si · Post by Si » Mon 28 Apr, 2008 1:58 pm

A "midden" is an old term for a rubbish dump.

Tel. 0532 · Post by **Tel. 0532** » Mon 28 Apr, 2008 2:02 pm

cnosni wrote: Si wrote: Squat - to hide or put aside.Baba - poo.Gems - (with a hard G) spectacles.Spell - splinter. Spell,good un!what about a pike for an eyesore spotbonk for a large marble(sounds like a fair swap!) Tores (or tors) - marbles

Tel. 0532 · Post by **Tel. 0532** » Mon 28 Apr, 2008 2:18 pm

arry awk wrote: Thanks for all those posted since I signed off last.Sumguddunsthee-er!Quite recently there was a news item about a chap named Sharpe.(You'll never guess his first name?) L U K E !Some parents don't bother to mentally 'see' what theyare letting their offspring in for in later life!Things like; Robert(BOB)Downe!(brother.Ben!)I'm sure we can think of more??? (NOT Annie More!)Esther Dunne?'Go to Helen Hunt for it' (dare I mention her two brothers, Eric and Isaac?).We had a Pru man once called Ronald Soles!Ed.Balls. Cabinet Minister.Formally a footballer?Let's have 'em then!Arry My college tutor was called Donald Kaye...